#The Plentimon of Dice
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I refreshed the Exalted Art Challenge with a couple of new topics and a list of weekly topics for the slow folks like me! We moved right in the middle of this challenge for October, so I only had time to partake in the weekly topics, instead. Still, this challenge is always a lot of fun and a great excuse to experiment with different methods and styles!
Read more about the lore of each drawing and watch time lapses of their creation here.
Week 1 - Your PC - Laughing Fox, my Changing Moon Lunar
Week 2 - A Meal In Creation - A Feast for The Plentimon of Dice
Week 3 - Fave Charm - Archery (plus some exploration of Kalara's anima)
Week 4 - Fave Fashion - A Chiaroscuro Glass Gown for Kalara
#Exalted Art Challenge#ttrpg art#Exalted RPG#Exalted Art Challenge 2022#Kalara Vadras#Laughing Fox#original characters#Eclipse Caste#Changing Moon Lunar#The Plentimon of Dice#The Uncrucified#Anima Banner#Solar Exalted
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The Release Retrospective is a look back at all the year’s releases, as summed up monthly in the Release Roundups.
2017 was a pretty amazing year! We managed to release a lot of projects important to us and to the fans, including Pugmire and Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition. We also launched our Onyx Dice dice rolling app, which has been on a lot of our wishlists for years.
What was your favorite release of the year? Let us know in the comments below!
Game Media
Onyx Path
Onyx Path 2017/2018 Publishing Brochure
The Onyx Dice dice rolling app (iOS/Android)
Scarred Lands: Dagger of Spiragos (advance PDF) for 5e OGL and Pathfinder
Scarred Lands: Scarred Lands Players Guide (print) for 5e OGL and Pathfinder
Scarred Lands: The Wise & The Wicked 2nd Edition (PDF/print) for 5e OGL and Pathfinder
Scion: Frost Giant Butt Warriors, this year’s April Fools product (PDF)
Trinity Continuum: Storypath System Preview (PDF)
Creator-Owned
Pugmire: Pugmire Interactive Character Sheets (PDF)
Pugmire: Pugmire Core Rulebook (PDF, print via IPR and Studio2)
Pugmire: Thank You, Darcy Cat! (audio adventure, also via Indie Press Revolution)
Monarchies of Mau: Monarchies of Mau Early Access (PDF/print)
Monarchies of Mau: Monarchies of Mau Wallpaper (image)
White Wolf: World of Darkness
Vampire: The Masquerade: Lore of the Bloodlines (PDF/print)
Vampire: The Masquerade: The Prince’s Gambit Desktop Wallpaper (image)
V20 Dark Ages: Dark Ages Companion (PDF/print)
V20 Dark Ages: Legacy of Lies: A V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (PDF/print)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Changing Ways (advance PDF)
Mage: The Ascension: The Book of Secrets (PDF/print)
Mage: The Ascension: The Art of Mage: 20 Years and More (PDF/print)
Mage: The Ascension: The Mage Cookbook (PDF/print)
Changeling: The Dreaming: Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition (PDF/print)
Changeling: The Dreaming: Yours to Keep: A Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition Jumpstart (PDF/print)
White Wolf: Exalted
Exalted: Adversaries of the Righteous 1: Harrowing Silence (PDF)
Exalted: Adversaries of the Righteous 2: The Broker and Ifraja the Librarian (PDF)
Exalted: Adversaries of the Righteous 3: Cynis Borok and Regara Feria (PDF)
Exalted: The Tomb of Dreams: A Jumpstart for Exalted 3rd Edition (PDF/print)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 1: Doppelganger and Mata-Yadh (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 2: Strix and Zicnal (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 3: Mouse of the Sun and Rantai (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 4: Elephant/Mammoth and Fulope (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 5: Cloud Person and Fang-Blossom (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 6: Metagalapan Riding Hawk and Plentimon’s Ladybug (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 7: Bloodworm and Giant Grosbeak (PDF)
Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade 8: Dune Swarm and Haunt (PDF)
Exalted: Exalted Third Edition Music Suite 1: Fanfare for the Chosen (audio)
Exalted: Exalted Third Edition Wallpapers (images)
Exalted: Arms of the Chosen (advance PDF)
White Wolf: Chronicles of Darkness
Chronicles of Darkness: Hurt Locker (now in print)
Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras Companion (PDF/print)
Skinchangers / Demon: The Descent: Dark Eras: Beneath the Skin (PDF/print)
Vampire: The Requiem: Reap the Whirlwind Revised (print)
Vampire: The Requiem: Secrets of the Covenants (print)
Vampire: The Requiem: Thousand Years of Night (PDF/print)
Vampire: The Requiem: Half-Damned (advance PDF)
Vampire: The Requiem / Changeling: The Lost: Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (PDF/print)
Werewolf: The Forsaken: Dark Eras: The Bowery Dogs (PDF/print)
Werewolf: The Forsaken / Mage: The Awakening: Dark Eras: The Sundered World (PDF/print)
Werewolf: The Forsaken / Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Dark Eras: The Wolf and the Raven (PDF/print)
Mage: The Awakening: Dark Eras: To The Strongest (PDF/print)
Changeling: The Lost / Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Dark Eras: Three Kingdoms of Darkness (PDF/print)
Changeling: The Lost: Dark Eras: Lily, Sabre, and Thorn (PDF/print)
Hunter: The Vigil: Dark Eras: Doubting Souls (PDF/print)
Hunter: The Vigil: Dark Eras: Fallen Blossoms (PDF/print)
Hunter: The Vigil: Hunter: Tooth and Nail (PDF/print)
Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Dark Eras: God’s Own Country (PDF/print)
Mummy: The Curse: Dark Eras: Ruins of Empire (PDF/print)
Mummy: The Curse: Cursed Necropolis: Rio (PDF/print)
Demon: The Descent: Dark Eras: Into the Cold (PDF/print)
Demon: The Descent: Dark Eras: After the Fall (PDF/print)
Beast: The Primordial: Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes (PDF/print)
Beast: The Primordial: Building a Legend (PDF/print)
Cards & Posters
Trinity Continuum: Æon: Trinity Continuum: Æon poster (with logo) (PDF/print)
Trinity Continuum: Æon: Trinity Continuum: Æon poster (without logo) (PDF/print)
Pugmire: Pugmire Card Set 1: Trick, Condition, and Initiative cards (PDF/print)
Promethean: The Created: Promethean 2nd Edition Condition Cards (PDF/print)
Beast: The Primordial: Beast: The Primordial Condition Cards (print)
Fiction
Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Vampire: The Masquerade: The Endless Ages Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Of Predators and Prey: The Hunters Hunted II Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
V20 Dark Ages: Cainite Conspiracies (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage II (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Song of Unmaking (ebook/print, Amazon Kindle)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Poison Tree (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Songs of the Sun and Moon: Tales of the Changing Breeds (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Mage: The Ascension: Truth Beyond Paradox (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Changeling: The Dreaming: Anthology of Dreams (ebook/print, Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Vampire: The Requiem: The Strix Chronicle Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Idigam Chronicle Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Mage: The Awakening: The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Changeling: The Lost: The Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology (advance PDF)
Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (ebook/print, Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Mummy: The Curse: Curse of the Blue Nile (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Beast: The Primordial: The Primordial Feast Anthology (Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
Merch
Pugmire Art: Thank You, Darcy Cat! (shirt)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Retro Blond Bond (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Retro Business Casual (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Retro Leg Up (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Retro Pouty (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Panders (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Assamite antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Brujah antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Serpents of the Light (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Gangrel antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Lasombra antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Malkavian antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Nosferatu antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Ravnos antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Toreador antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Tremere antitribu (shirts)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Ventrue antitribu (shirts)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Auspice: Ragabash (shirts)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Auspice: Theurge (shirts)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Auspice: Philodox (shirts)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Auspice: Galliard (shirts)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Auspice: Ahroun (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Ahl-i-Batin (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Messianic Voices (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Old Faith (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Order of Hermes (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Spirit-Talkers (shirts)
Dark Ages: Mage: Fellowship: Valdaermen (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Correspondence (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Entropy (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Forces (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Life (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Matter (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Mind (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Prime (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Spirit (shirts)
Mage: The Ascension: Sphere: Time (shirts)
Exalted Cover Art: Arms of the Chosen (shirt, tablet case)
Exalted Art: Frost Thorn Knuckle (shirt)
Exalted Art: Irenio’s Bell (shirt, phone skin)
Exalted Art: Mela’s Coil (shirt)
Exalted Art: Stormcaller (shirt)
Exalted Art: Sunflash (shirt)
Exalted Art: Warstrider (shirt)
Exalted Art: Warstrider 2 (shirt)
Skinchangers / Demon: The Descent: Beneath the Skin (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Daeva] Anvari (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Daeva] Toreador (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Gangrel] Bohagande (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Gangrel] Bruja (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Mekhet] Alucinor (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Mekhet] Khaibit (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Mekhet] Morbus (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Nosferatu] Burakumin (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Nosferatu] Gethsemani (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Ventrue] Architects of the Monolith (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem: [Ventrue] Malkovians (shirts)
Vampire: The Requiem / Changeling: The Lost: Requiem for Regina (shirts)
Werewolf: The Forsaken / Mage: The Awakening: The Sundered World (shirts)
Werewolf: The Forsaken / Geist: The Sin-Eaters: The Wolf and the Raven (shirts)
Werewolf: The Forsaken: Bowery Dogs (shirts)
Mage: The Awakening: To the Strongest (shirts)
Promethean: The Created: A Handful of Dust (shirts)
Changeling: The Lost: Lily, Sabre, and Thorn (shirts)
Changeling: The Lost / Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Three Kingdoms of Darkness (shirts)
Changeling: The Lost: A Grimm Dark Era (shirts)
Hunter: The Vigil: Compact: The Reckoning (shirts)
Hunter: The Vigil: Compact: Yuri’s Group (shirts)
Hunter: The Vigil: Conspiracy: The Merrick Institute (shirts)
Hunter: The Vigil: Fallen Blossoms (shirts)
Hunter: The Vigil: Doubting Souls (shirts)
Geist: The Sin-Eaters: God’s Own Country (shirts)
Mummy: The Curse: Ruins of Empire (shirts)
Demon: The Descent: After the Fall (shirts)
Demon: The Descent: Into the Cold (shirts)
Back in Print
Vampire: The Masquerade: Chicago Chronicles Volume 1
Vampire: The Masquerade: Chicago Chronicles Volume 2
Vampire: The Masquerade: Vampire Players Guide 2nd Edition
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Werewolf: The Apocalypse 1st Edition
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Werewolf Players Guide 2nd Edition
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Hengeyokai: Shapeshifters of the East
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Werewolf Storytellers Companion
Mage: The Ascension: Mage: The Ascension 2nd Edition
Mage: The Ascension: Mage Chronicles Volume 2 (Ascension’s Right Hand and Halls of the Arcanum)
Mage: The Ascension: The Traditions Gathered 2: Blood and Dreams (Cult of Ecstasy, Dreamspeakers, Verbena)
Wraith: The Oblivion: Wraith: The Oblivion 1st Edition (available in hardcover for the first time!)
Mage: The Awakening: Mage Tarot
Kickstarters
Vampire: The Masquerade: Prince’s Gambit casual card game, ending at 668% of our goal
Monarchies of Mau: Monarchies of Mau fantasy tabletop RPG, ending at 593% of our goal
Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras 2, ending at 151% of our goal
Cavaliers of Mars: Cavaliers of Mars, ending at 768% of our goal
Changeling: The Lost: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition, ending at 333% or our goal
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Making an Exigent
Step 1: Determine Nature
Simply put, what is your Exalt the Exigent of? If you only know what their patron is at this stage it’s probably going to be fairly self-explanatory, a Bloody Hand is going to create a Chosen of Murder and a Volcano God is going to create a Chosen of Volcanoes.
Step 2: Planning
Draw up a small table and divide it up as follows.
It doesn’t matter how their charmset is going to be structured yet, all Exalt types are going to have some use for the following three categories.
Physical is (at the very minimum) offence and defence even if they’re not presented as direct applications of force. A wall of psychic force will be considered physical at this stage even if it originates from the Exalt’s mental powers.
Social is how they interact with the world. It’s easy to consider certain patrons non-social but even if they avoid interacting with the world or only do so through intimidation that’s still potentially fertile ground for charms.
Mental is how they perceive the world. Even a patron that’s little more than animalistic rage will still notice things and react to them.
Now try to populate the table with some basic charm ideas.
For Example: A player wants to make a Chosen of a Volcano Goddess based on the Hawaiian goddess Pele. Under physical they have ideas for powers based on exerting the raw power of a volcano such as fire and environmental attacks. Under social they can channel her passion and jealousy. Finally mental can explore Pele as a creator as well as a destroyer. All the while the concept is anchored in real life Polynesian culture as a source of themes to run concurrently with having volcanic powers.
Last but not least, don’t be afraid to revisit step 1. If you’re having difficulty populating this table go back and think more about their patron. Perhaps a generic Volcano God is too narrow to capture your imagination alternatively you might be trying to make a Chosen of Wisdom that seemed cool but has ended up so broad that you’re paralysed for different reasons.
Step 3: The Excellency
It’s productive here to think of an Excellency for your Exalt type because it’s a measuring stick for how powerful you want them to be and a way of incorporating their concept into every significant action they undertake. If we take the example of Revana Quin from the corebook she needs to stunt in an urban environment in order to achieve her full power.
One can also build dice tricks into the Excellency to help reinforce a distinct style.
For example: Nedele is a Highroller, an Exigent who won her Exaltation is a high stakes game of cards with Plentimon with a normal dice cap of (Attribute) but rolling a 7, 8, 9 and 10 on any dice roll grants her a point of Luck which can be cashed it at any point during the story to reroll a single action.
Step 4: The Charms
Phase 1 Stealing! Look for ideas similar to the ones you documented in Step 2 in the corebook. It’s easy to get worried about power level and consider the Solar Charms off limit but that is honestly shooting yourself in the foot.
A lot of Solar charms are powerful in-context such as Dual Magnus Prana which would be much weaker if it was disconnected from Solar Craft or placed at high essence because they reflect something that’s on the edge of acceptability for Solar themes like flight as is the case of Bonfire Anima Wings.
Part of why I advised getting your Excellency out of the way in Step 3 is because knowing which dice pools can be modified by how much is important. For example, possessing a Stamina Excellency lets you increase your Soak in a way that a Solar can’t and may affect the relative value of some Resistance charms. Similarly if the maximum dice you can add to a Melee attack is 5 then a damage enhancer is less useful to you because skilled enemies that you may need it against will be more likely to sidestep it.
Phase 2 Innovation! Now you have what is essentially an assortment of parts and it’s your job to make them look like they belong together in the same set.
Example: Faina is an Apothecary, an Exigent of the Syndic Uvanavu (The God of Health and Well-Being) and in addition to miraculous powers to heal the sick may also curse her foes with injury. As such her player has decided that the Solar Charm Injury-Forcing Technique is appropriate for one of Faina’s attack charms. While it is an essence 3 Lore charm for a Solar, combat-healing is more appropriate to her. The newly renamed Health-Syphoning Malediction is essence 1 and the start of a cascade of charms dedicated to stealing away a person’s health rather than physically injuring them.
Essence Pools
A character’s essence pool represents a last check on power levels. Right now it’s an all Solar’s game with the core so shrinking the mote pools shouldn’t be required unless you come up with something absurdly overpowered. You may want to calibrate your Exalt to be comparable to an existing type as a means of future proofing the idea though.
Isn’t this a lot of work?
Yes, but not as much as you might think. Just because you make an ability based Exalt type doesn’t mean you need to have charms written for every ability, as long as you’re not forced to pull a new concept out of nowhere to make it work it should be reasonable.
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The 3rd compilation of sketches for my Exalted Art Challenge arrives early for Patreon Patrons! Exploring concepts for the God of Gambling, First Age heroes, and more. Here are some of my favorite picks, with alternates and creative notes at the post.
Find the post here.
PLUS enjoy a bonus sketch of the Plentimon of Dice's poker face. I had a good giggle imagining what he'd look like while playing a game. His innocuous inky form would make it very hard to read his tells!
#Exalted Art Challenge#ttrpg art#Exalted RPG#The Uncrucified#Plentimon of Dice#Exalted Art Challenge 2020#Patreon Early Access#Character Sketches#ttrpg#Patreon Artist#First Age Solars
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Exalted Art Challenge Concept Sketches - Favorite God - Plentimon of the Dice
Creation is full of offerings a-plenty for the Plentimon of the Dice! He is the God of Gambling and one of the most present and active gods in Creation. This god gets a thrill from watching games of chance unfold and the excitement of high stakes. He's always circulating Creation visiting every casino either in his full splendor or a mortal disguise. Those who gamble to him and lose without repaying their debts meet mysterious unexplained deaths.
The Plentimon shows up often in The Uncrucified, as Kalara's hometown of Gem hosts one of the most magnificent subterranean gambling parlors built with such finery as to please the gods themselves. Games of chance are part of the culture of Gem, with fortunes always turning in their many gambling parlors. Kalara has experienced this firsthand as her contract was lost several times in a game of chance, usually during Plentimon's festival day.
I've chosen to depict the Plentimon with a half-mask representing Good and Bad fortune with jewelry and adornments made from various game pieces and jade obols. Perhaps they are the good luck charms from those who have lost to him?
See more of this Art Challenge here.
See more art and stories for The Uncrucified.
#Exalted Art Challenge#Exalted Art Challenge 2020#Exalted RPG#Plentimon of the Dice#Onyx Path Publishing#White Wolf Publishing
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The Uncrucified [BETA] Chapter 5 - Daydreams
Man alive, has it really been since October of last year since I posted a chapter? Thanks to the extra motivation of Camp NaNoWriMo, I’m back at it again! After the losses of last chapter, Kalara searches for meaning on the slave’s path, finding it in the shine of firewands and an unexpected reunion.
The quiet chaos of grief felt like it should have consumed her, that upon arriving at yet another home in the shade of a grander lava tube, Kalara should have cried for the loss of her friends and the loss of Djali. Instead, numbness set in as Farook rode with her to her new home. Life, as it happened, seemed to continue on, ignorant of the cares of a Scrap like her. Farook introduced Kalara to her new quarters in his shaded abode, a little room barely larger than a closet with a small bed, half of the space full of scrolls and boxes. He was an appraiser in the grand scheme of House Iblan, his humble holdings luxurious enough to be shaded from the sun and furnished with woven carpets, but not near as decadent as Kalara might have imagined for someone descended from the venerable goldsmiths of Iblan.
Iblan Farook cracked his back as he stretched from their trip in the sedan chair, the aging man more past his prime than he liked to let on. “Clean up the mess tomorrow and the space is yours.” He gestured lazily to the piles of parchment. “I wasn’t expecting to win a slave. Lucky girl!” He laughed and placed a hand on her shoulder, Kalara’s green eyes flicking up to take in his beard-lined face, searching there for some clue as to whether that touch meant good or ill. Apparent kindness, she had learned, did not protect you from being sent off to the next master. Every time a new master bought her contract was a gamble of Plentimon’s dice between kind and cruel. So far she had been rolling well, too well.
Read on at the raw beta chapter here.
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